Windows xp runas network settings

Mghie, ncpa. You do not need to start it from an admin cmd, you can got to your system32 directory, find it, right click on it, "Run as Please have a look at img First I started it as limited user, which you can see from the little locks in "Network Connections". The second attempt failed, the third as Administrator gave me the Explorer window as shown. I'm stumped. Can you try running the "cmd" as admin, and just typing "control ncpa.

Show 2 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. Try the runas with the following: explorer. Extract from the link: "In the system32 folder, the file properties of ncpa. Improve this answer. Thanks for the link, I'm reading and trying out now, but still it doesn't work completely as advertised.

Maybe it's the XP 64? Anyway, thanks for persisting with this, I will mark an accepted answer when I have it working both on XP 32 and XP All is well: It does work exactly as advertised, with minor cosmetic glitches - the network connection symbols don't react on double clicks, and they still have the little "Locked" symbol superimposed, that's what led me to believe it was still not working. However, choosing Properties in the context menu opens a completely functioning page, all options enabled.

Thanks a lot, the links to the incredible blog post and the scripts made me accept this for the answer. Add a comment. Oskar Duveborn Oskar Duveborn That's great for scripts. It looks a little overwhelming for casual use though, any idea how to get to the "normal" properties page? I am close to find it. I know that the Control Panel network extension is netcpl. I am still researching and will post back. Specifies the level of authorization at which the application is to run.

Specifies the name of the user account under which to run the program, the program name, and the path to the program file. It is good practice for administrators to use an account with restrictive permissions to perform routine, nonadministrative tasks, and to use an account with broader permissions only when performing specific administrative tasks. To accomplish this without logging off and back on, log on with a regular user account, and then use the runas command to run the tools that require the broader permissions.

The use of runas is not restricted to administrator accounts, although that is the most common use. Any user with multiple accounts can use runas to run a program, MMC console, or Control Panel item with alternate credentials.

You can run them as an administrator while you are logged on to your computer as a member of another group, such as the Users or Power Users group.

As long as you provide the appropriate user account and password information, the user account has the ability to log on to the computer, and the program, MMC console, or Control Panel item is available on the system and to the user account.

With the runas command, you can administer a server in another domain or forest the computer from which you run a tool and the server you administer are in different domains or forests.

If you try to start a program, MMC console, or Control Panel item from a network location using runas , it might fail because the credentials used to connect to the shared network resource are different from the credentials used to start the program. The latter credentials may not be able to gain access to the same shared network resource. Some items, such as the Printers folder and desktop items, are opened indirectly and cannot be started with the runas command.

If the runas command fails, the Secondary Logon service might not be running or the user account you are using might not be valid. Unable to runas administrator.

I have only one user 'rakesh' and that user is the Administrator. When I execute this command —. Possible reasons are blank passwords not allowed, logon hour restrictions, or a policy restriction has been enforced. Did u get the solution. Please help me. Administrator is the name of a specific, built-in account — not a pseudonym for any administrator account, or the Rakesh account.

The error you are receiving is due to the Administrator account having a different password to the Rakesh account, so inputting the Rakesh password does not authenticate correctly.

To find your computer name, press either of the following:. That would tell the computer to request a signin for the account named superadmin on the beefpower domain.

In your case you already have admin privileges. Check if the administrator account is disabled, or the password has expired. A new command window flashes and it does not print any error in the main window. Why so? Yes, my computer has parental controls on it which I am attempting to bypass.

I think your not understanding the command at all. The runas command is setup to allow you to run applications or the command prompt with an admin password for that machine without having to switch who is logged in. If I your dad has admin rights to the laptop then If I ran the runas command I could use my credentials to install or run something with admin right on your profile.

So you have to have the administrator password or a users password that has admin rights to run this. You would need a different program for what you are trying to do. You would need a way to get the admin password or a way to login with admin rights. It looks like your parents have created a user account for you which has less privileges standard user.

You might want to look at it another way. Lets say, you can change the Administrator password to nothing blank and move your user account under Administrators group but make sure the Operating System is not Home Basic or any such lower tier OS. First of all, do the following to change the admin password. You should now have full admin privileges to do the unthinkable. You might also, as a way of courtesy , not tell your parents what happened to the admin password.

I thought maybe there would be a way to do this using Runas, but have not succeeded yet.